10 movies to see this winter

Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial feature debut with this comic diversion set in a home for retired opera singers. The cast includes Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay, and the likely main course on the buffet is ham.

Dustin Hoffman makes his directorial feature debut with this comic diversion set in a home for retired opera singers. The cast includes Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay, and the likely main course on the buffet is ham.

An ex-cop, played by Mark Wahlberg, is hired to tail the wife of the New York mayor (Russell Crowe). Scandal! Corruption! A title that screams film noir, while sounding slightly like a mistranslation from another language! Good cast, to be sure: In addition to Wahlberg and Crowe, it includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barry Pepper and the ultrareliable Jeffrey Wright.

An ex-cop, played by Mark Wahlberg, is hired to tail the wife of the New York mayor (Russell Crowe). Scandal! Corruption! A title that screams film noir, while sounding slightly like a mistranslation from another language! Good cast, to be sure: In addition to Wahlberg and Crowe, it includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Barry Pepper and the ultrareliable Jeffrey Wright.